{"title":"Socially Sustainable Suburbia: Addressing a Puzzling and Multifaceted Issue","authors":"M. Adelfio","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2928","url":null,"abstract":"This issue links the concept of social sustainability with suburbia. It emphasises the multi-disciplinary, yet, insufficiently defined character of ‘socially sustainable suburbia’ and engages in a cross-disciplinary dialogue in order to overcome the remaining, predominantly negative connotation of suburban development.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"34 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91178536","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"ParkingPLUS: How Design Produces a Future for Long Island’s Suburban Downtowns","authors":"J. Williamson, Kaja Kühl","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2966","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2966","url":null,"abstract":"Speculative design can be a useful tool in building broad-based support among community members and stakeholders for denser, transit-oriented development, and a greater mix of uses in North American suburbs, particularly in suburban regions characterized by both fractured governance and persistent segregation by race and class such as found in the Long Island suburbs of New York City. Urban design and in particular urban design competitions provide opportunity to initiate public conversations about the potential for retrofitting selected suburban sites to new built configurations that are more socially sustainable and resilient over time. Recent efforts by the Long Island Index, a project of the Rauch Foundation, to leverage research through sponsoring design competitions to generate an informed conversation about land use around transit stations in Long Island’s suburban downtowns serves as an example. We present the 2013-14 Build a Better Burb: ParkingPLUS design challenge and its results as well as local and national reactions to them – including debates in the freewheeling discursive space of online comments to articles. We emphasize the role that speculative design can play in advancing local policies and decision-making processes that support a greater densification and diversification of transit-supported suburban downtowns.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"97 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82082146","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Pablo Martí
{"title":"Comparing Two Residential Suburban Areas in the Costa Blanca, Spain","authors":"Leticia Serrano-Estrada, Almudena Nolasco-Cirugeda, Pablo Martí","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2935","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2935","url":null,"abstract":"The Costa Blanca in the province of Alicante (Spain) represents an emblematic example of suburban development around Mediterranean medium-sized cities, with the existence of a wide range of residential settlements devoted both to the native population and foreign-born groups. Condominiums, gated communities and single-family housing have few facilities and inadequate space for outdoor activities related to leisure and recreation. Such settlements are characterized by a fluctuation in population which increases in the summer, fostered by the high demand for sun, sand and sea tourism. At the same time, they display a lack of vibrant public spaces and a narrow range of accommodation options and activities. Urban sociability, understood as social opportunities afforded by space characteristics, is highly dependent on physical features such as variety in space, diversity of housing types and configuration of urban activities. The aim of this study is to analyze these aforementioned factors in two predominantly residential settlements, i.e., Gran Alacant and La Marina-Oasis. Our research indicates a likely relationship among the following urban features in terms of whether or not they promote social life: the existing number and location of activities (retail, facilities and residential tourism related services), the distribution and diversity of dwellings, and the configuration of open spaces. Each of the aforementioned urban features is analyzed in order to understand how they may contribute to sociability.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"74 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-10-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80489272","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le mythe du ghetto de la Mouraria à Lisbonne: la mise en récit d'un territoire plastique","authors":"Jacques Galhardo","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2430","url":null,"abstract":"Le quartier de la Mouraria a Lisbonne est traverse par de nombreuses memoires. A partir de 2008, de nouveaux habitants produisent et diffusent dans l’espace public le mythe du ghetto arabe a l’origine des politiques de rehabilitation recentes du quartier. Dans un premier temps, cette nouvelle memoire destabilise les precedentes et oriente le regard vers les logiques conflictuelles. Puis, elle s’approprie les elements des autres memoires la rendant ainsi compatible avec un territoire particulier. Enfin, le mythe du ghetto maure offre une reponse aux nouvelles problematiques socio-spatiales qui traversent le quartier. C’est cette capacite d’adaptation et de souplesse qui en fait une memoire plastique prompte a expliquer la capacite de transformation et d’adaptation des territoires eux-memes.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81685568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Entre stigmates et mémoires : dynamiques paradoxales de la rénovation urbaine","authors":"Barbara Morovich","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2529","url":null,"abstract":"Les acteurs de la renovation urbaine utilisent des discours sur les degradations des quartiers populaires qui renforcent les stigmates de ces lieux, deja fortement mediatises, et de leurs habitants. Parallelement, on exalte « l’habitant » et sa memoire, dont la valorisation serait un passage oblige, une etape incontournable avant de basculer vers le changement. Dans ce cadre, des artistes sont appeles a redonner du sens dans le contexte de bouleversement urbain : ils participent a la creation d’une nouvelle identite du quartier et a l’eloignement des stigmates. Ces projets artistiques qui mettent en avant la memoire des habitants ont un role ambigu : comment operer un travail memoriel dans des lieux qu’on souhaite effacer ?","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"14 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84779700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Le centre historique de Naples : patrimonialisation contre pratiques populaires ?","authors":"Marta Pappalardo","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2479","url":null,"abstract":"Le centre historique de Naples, classe Patrimoine de l’Humanite Unesco, est touche par une degradation importante. Pour reprendre en main ce territoire la Municipalite a lance, en 2009, le Grand Programme Centre Historique Naples Unesco, une strategie d’ensemble qui associe la rehabilitation du patrimoine bâti a un reamenagement urbain plus large. L’une des operations phare du Grand Programme est la reconversion en commerces des bassi, des locaux traditionnellement utilises comme des logements. La plupart des bassi sont concentres dans la zone des Quartieri Spagnoli, une importante poche de pauvrete mais egalement un territoire tres convoite pour sa valeur fonciere potentielle et sa proximite avec la rue commercante de Naples par excellence, la rue Toledo. A travers l’analyse des pratiques de cette architecture traditionnelle ainsi que de l’espace du centre historique en general, on peut questionner les rapports de domination dans le processus de planification urbaine en centre-ville et la delegitimation des pratiques et identites des groupes defavorises de la population, qui s’approprient fortement le territoire du centre en tant que ressource indispensable a leur vie quotidienne. Comment la planification urbaine peut-elle traduire une volonte de domination de groupes indesirables dans la vitrine de la ville ?","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"53 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76276625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Production et effacement des lieux de mémoires dans une commune-centre anciennement industrielle : le cas de Villeurbanne (France)","authors":"Vincent Veschambre","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2451","url":null,"abstract":"C’est dans une tension exacerbee entre l’affichage d’une memoire ouvriere et la transformation profonde du paysage urbain que se situe l’interet de ce cas d’etude. Villeurbanne permet de mettre en evidence les processus de filtrage des lieux de memoire, entre marques-memoires legitimees et traces-memoires fragilisees. La recente ouverture du Rize, « centre memoires, cultures, echanges » municipal, revele les contradictions inherentes a un decouplage entre mise en valeur des memoires et prise en compte des patrimoines architecturaux et urbains.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"23 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72748057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Usages de la mémoire dans les projets de renouvellement urbain. Le cas des espaces hérités de l’industrie française","authors":"A. Nicolas, Thomas Zanetti","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2464","url":null,"abstract":"Les projets de renouvellement urbain sur des espaces herites de l’industrie constituent des lieux d’observation privilegies pour saisir les processus d’actualisation, de selection et de transmission de memoires. Considerant ces processus dans cinq villes francaises (Saint-Etienne, Nantes, Clermont-Ferrand, Givors et Saint-Chamond), cet article interroge les differents contextes de mobilisation de la memoire dans les projets urbains et invite a envisager ce qui pourrait justifier et construire des categories generales a meme d’instruire la comparaison, voire d’organiser une typologie, ayant trait aux usages politiques et sociaux de la memoire dans les projets d’amenagement urbain.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"33 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83962560","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Les enjeux de la patrimonialisation du parc historique de la canne-à-sucre en Haïti","authors":"J. Michel","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.2442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.2442","url":null,"abstract":"L’acces au passe colonial-esclavagiste, par la memoire, l’histoire ou la culture, se retrouve en Haiti dans les habitations coloniales qui connaissent des stades divers de patrimonialisation depuis plusieurs annees. Parmi elles, la reconstitution museologique du parc historique de la canne-a-sucre, ancienne exploitation agricole coloniale devenue ulterieurement lieu de memoire au sens de Pierre Nora (1984) emblematique en milieu urbain en Haiti, est une mise en scene en objets, en mots et en images des traces (Veschambre 2008) materielles et symboliques de la memoire colonial-esclavagiste et des marques de la memoire domestique (Rautenberg 2003) et familiale (Muxel 1996) qui fait l’objet de legitimations memorielles et de revendications identitaires. Par son aspect historique, memoriel, patrimonial, urbain, pedagogique et culturel, il permet de penser autrement les liens entre memoire, histoire et culture dans une societe postcoloniale. Cet article, resultant d’une recherche ethnographique et sociologique composite (archives, analyse de contenu, observations, photographies et entretiens), menee in situ entre 2011 et 2013 avec des individus dont les histoires, les milieux d’origine et les conditions socio-economiques varient, montre que ce haut lieu de l’histoire sociale haitienne interroge fondamentalement la relation au passe colonial-esclavagiste, inlassablement reconstruit pour dessiner le present. L’analyse sociologique des materiaux de l’enquete de terrain permet de comprendre comment ce centre culturel-musee (Verges 2012) contribue a l’invisibilisation des rapports sociaux esclavagistes tout en donnant a voir l’hegemonie des elites economique, politique et culturelle dans la hierarchie sociale haitienne.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86364413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Splendeur et misère du périurbain. Introduction","authors":"Y. Bonard, S. Lord, L. Matthey, F. Zanghi","doi":"10.4000/ARTICULO.1479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.4000/ARTICULO.1479","url":null,"abstract":"This issue of Articulo – Journal of Urban Research explores the tension born of the interplay between two “medial images”. On the one hand, suburbia conceived of as a relegation zone, a removal from city sometimes tantamount to a removal from life. On the other, suburbia thought of as a crucible of mobility and social mobility.","PeriodicalId":38124,"journal":{"name":"Articulo - Journal of Urban Research","volume":"11 1","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2014-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75328923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}